This is a collection of ancient Greek medical texts attributed to Hippocrates and his followers, covering a wide range of medical topics. It is considered foundational to Western medicine, establishing ethical standards and a rational approach to disease.
Sources for Hippocrates — The Complete Works (Corpus Hippocraticum)
Hippocrates — The Complete Works (Corpus Hippocraticum) in Medicine
Held in the Medicine chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Galen — On the Natural Faculties (2nd century)
- Joseph Baron Lister — The Collected Papers (1909)
- Louis Pasteur — On Germ Theory and Microbiology (early papers) (19th century)
- Florence Nightingale — Notes on Matters Affecting Health (1858)
- Andreas Vesalius — De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543)
- William Harvey — On the Motion of the Heart and Blood (1628)
- Edward Jenner — An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae (1798)
- John Snow — On the Mode of Communication of Cholera (1855)
- Joseph Lister — On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery (1867)
- Robert Koch — Die Aetiologie der Tuberculose (The Aetiology of Tuberculosis) (1882)